Now I just reinstalled a squeeze because [http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=199&p=580176]I accumulated mistakes and bugs with some previous trials[/url] and wished to start from the beginning.

if you upgrade to wheezy you run the risk of upgrading to something more recent than LMDE.so I would upgrade straight from squeeze to LMDE. which would be a nice experiment, I never thought of doing that.if it works well I could upgrade a computer that was originnaly lenny, now runs squeeze and I can put LMDE if I wish (I would make a disk image first as its current state is valuable to me).

starting afresh with LMDE xfce would be reasonable, you would get some bloat but it can mitigated : you can install the lxde-core package which contains the basics (openbox, lxpanel, lxsession, pcmanfm). then you get a desktop with the xfce terminal emulator and other accessories (text editor, task manager etc.) and software (a bit too many things, yes ^^. hide them with lxmed)

I wondered getting the xfce.iso version or not. But in fact, since - also - lxde is still young, there are some stuff not yet perfect (I think about lxdm, for instance, or the power management). I had the use, until now, to replace them by some gnome's stuff, as gdm and gnome-power-management. (gdm, no gdm3 for that matter).

Then, I already gave a try to xfce, but I was not appealed. I couldn't get into the system thus, prefered lxde core. So that's why I went to lxde through the gnome wave.

So, yesterday I tryed to follow this post about xfce, but of course, I arrived to a dead end : i wish not install xfce stuff, so I installed only "not xfce" packages, then, removed them back...

I still have the modified files as suggested in this post (sources.list, preferences, /etc/lsb-release - which has the xfce in the description -) the fact is the update told me the edition was outdated